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Motivation: Human genomic datasets often contain sensitive information that limits use and sharing of the data. In particular, simple anonymisation strategies fail to provide sufficient level of protection for genomic data, because the data…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-27 Teppo Niinimäki , Mikko Heikkilä , Antti Honkela , Samuel Kaski

We focus on the privacy-utility trade-off encountered by users who wish to disclose some information to an analyst, that is correlated with their private data, in the hope of receiving some utility. We rely on a general privacy statistical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-01 Ali Makhdoumi , Salman Salamatian , Nadia Fawaz , Muriel Medard

Previous studies have developed fairness methods for biased models that exhibit discriminatory behaviors towards specific subgroups. While these models have shown promise in achieving fair predictions, recent research has identified their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Huan Tian , Guangsheng Zhang , Bo Liu , Tianqing Zhu , Ming Ding , Wanlei Zhou

With the reduction of sequencing costs and the pervasiveness of computing devices, genomic data collection is continually growing. However, data collection is highly fragmented and the data is still siloed across different repositories.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Leonard Dervishi , Xinyue Wang , Wentao Li , Anisa Halimi , Jaideep Vaidya , Xiaoqian Jiang , Erman Ayday

Limited data access is a longstanding barrier to data-driven research and development in the networked systems community. In this work, we explore if and how generative adversarial networks (GANs) can be used to incentivize data sharing by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Zinan Lin , Alankar Jain , Chen Wang , Giulia Fanti , Vyas Sekar

In recent years, recommender systems are crucially important for the delivery of personalized services that satisfy users' preferences. With personalized recommendation services, users can enjoy a variety of recommendations such as movies,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Shijie Zhang , Wei Yuan , Hongzhi Yin

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have promoted a variety of applications in computer vision, natural language processing, etc. due to its generative model's compelling ability to generate realistic examples plausibly drawn from an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Zhipeng Cai , Zuobin Xiong , Honghui Xu , Peng Wang , Wei Li , Yi Pan

Machine learning (ML) explainability is central to algorithmic transparency in high-stakes settings such as predictive diagnostics and loan approval. However, these same domains require rigorous privacy guaranties, creating tension between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Firas Ben Hmida , Zain Sbeih , Philemon Hailemariam , Birhanu Eshete

Collaborative inference in next-generation networks can enhance Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, including autonomous driving, personal identification, and activity classification. This method involves a three-stage process: a)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Mohamed Seif , Yuqi Nie , Andrea Goldsmith , Vincent Poor

In this paper, we consider the parameter estimation in a bandwidth-constrained sensor network communicating through an insecure medium. The sensor performs a local quantization, and transmits a 1-bit message to an estimation center through…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Jimin Wang , Jieming Ke , Jin Guo , Yanlong Zhao

Attacks that aim to identify the training data of public neural networks represent a severe threat to the privacy of individuals participating in the training data set. A possible protection is offered by anonymization of the training data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Daniel Bernau , Philip-William Grassal , Jonas Robl , Florian Kerschbaum

In settings like vaccination registries, individuals act after observing others, and the resulting public records can expose private information. We study privacy-preserving sequential learning, where agents add endogenous noise to their…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-10-03 Yuxin Liu , M. Amin Rahimian

Data Distribution Service (DDS) is an innovative approach towards communication in ICS/IoT infrastructure and robotics. Being based on the cross-platform and cross-language API to be applicable in any computerised device, it offers the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Stanislav Abaimov

The increasing need for sharing healthcare data and collaborating on clinical research has raised privacy concerns. Health information leakage due to malicious attacks can lead to serious problems such as misdiagnoses and patient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Shiyi Jiang , Farshad Firouzi , Krishnendu Chakrabarty

Biometrics have a long-held hope of replacing passwords by establishing a non-repudiated identity and providing authentication with convenience. Convenience drives consumers toward biometrics-based access management solutions. Unlike…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Scott Streit , Brian Streit , Stephen Suffian

The foreseen growing role of outsourced machine learning services is raising concerns about the privacy of user data. Several technical solutions are being proposed to address the issue. Hardware security modules in cloud data centres…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Marc Joye , Fabien A. P. Petitcolas

Motivation: Cutting the cost of DNA sequencing technology led to a quantum leap in the availability of genomic data. While sharing genomic data across researchers is an essential driver of advances in health and biomedical research, the…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-03 Nour Almadhoun Alserr , Ozgur Ulusoy , Erman Ayday , Onur Mutlu

Deep Neural Network (DNN), one of the most powerful machine learning algorithms, is increasingly leveraged to overcome the bottleneck of effectively exploring and analyzing massive data to boost advanced scientific development. It is not a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Xiaoyu Zhang , Chao Chen , Yi Xie , Xiaofeng Chen , Jun Zhang , Yang Xiang

As generative AI (GenAI) systems become increasingly prevalent across various technological stacks, the question of how such systems handle sensitive and personal data flows becomes increasingly important. Specifically, both the ability to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Qianying Liao , Jonah Bellemans , Laurens Sion , Xue Jiang , Dmitrii Usynin , Xuebing Zhou , Dimitri Van Landuyt , Lieven Desmet , Wouter Joosen

Scientific collaborations benefit from collaborative learning of distributed sources, but remain difficult to achieve when data are sensitive. In recent years, privacy preserving techniques have been widely studied to analyze distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Guanhong Miao , A. Adam Ding , Samuel S. Wu